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Super Stardust has become wildly popular in a very short period, first as a staple of many PS3 owners’ collections as Super Startdust HD was the first game to support trophies, then as a not-as-stellar PSP title. It’s inevitable that the franchise would come to the PlayStation Vita, and Super …

It’s no small feat to deliver a launch title on new hardware, and EA Sports FIFA Soccer comes at an interesting time for the franchise. You see, there’s a reason that the title is “FIFA Soccer” and not “FIFA Soccer 12.” It plays as an adaptation of FIFA 11, with …

Check back at 1:00pm PT for a gameplay livestream of Kingdoms of Amalur with the reviewers for GamesRadar and PlayStation the Official Magazine. When kings will be born, how they’ll die, who they’ll right and who they’ll wrong, whether or not the chef’s pastries will be burnt or come out …

As far as hackneyed soap opera tropes go, the old “selective amnesia” chestnut takes some beating – boy meets girl, girl forgets boy, boy tries to jog girl’s memory – and the basedon- real-events tag can’t negate the schmaltz factor at the core of Michael Sucsy’s debut. “Are you trying …

Giving “nuclear fusion” a whole new meaning When it comes to raising the dramatic stakes and getting the sort of cathartic kick that reminds you your life is actually pretty good, you can’t beat a good dystopia. Pure offers two for the price of one. On the one hand, we …

Console game development takes time, but action-platformer The Kore Game: Outvasion From Inner Earth has taken more than most. In the works for nearly a decade and having passed through the hands of three publishers and three developers, it has the potential to be absurdly polished or a colossal dud. …

Five years ago, Jaws Unleashed gave us a bloody, open-world shark simulator that, in spite of being almost uniformly mediocre, nevertheless redeemed itself by taking the aging movie shark to inspiring heights of absurdity. As the nominal sequel to Unleashed, it’s reasonable to assume that Jaws: Ultimate Predator (also released …

Jaws isn’t a complicated character. He’s a big, hokey shark who lives in a 36-year-old movie franchise, lurks in dark water and eats people in gruesome ways. When translated into videogames, however, Jaws continually winds up in ridiculous situations, pitted against evil corporations, overconfident scuba divers and giant undersea monsters. …

Don’t ask Moira to make you dinner – she’s an offal cook…

Nano Assault is like the Magic Schoolbus field trip from hell. Instead of exploring dinosaur bones or space or even the redheaded kid’s colon, they’re exploring dangerous cells plagued with a horrible virus. That means the bus stays parked; this time they’re taking a spaceship with lasers. Nano Assault’s worlds …